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Stran 419
... elected adjutant general ; and Stephen Moylan , Esq ! was elected quarter master gen- eral . Resolved , That Joseph Reed , Esq have the pay of 125 dollars a month , and the rank of colonel : That Stephen Moylan , Esq ' have the pay of ...
... elected adjutant general ; and Stephen Moylan , Esq ! was elected quarter master gen- eral . Resolved , That Joseph Reed , Esq have the pay of 125 dollars a month , and the rank of colonel : That Stephen Moylan , Esq ' have the pay of ...
Stran 420
... elected : viz . John Whitecombe , Esq Hugh Mercer , Esq Resolved , That this Congress will to morrow again resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into their farther consideration the report of the Committee of Conference ...
... elected : viz . John Whitecombe , Esq Hugh Mercer , Esq Resolved , That this Congress will to morrow again resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into their farther consideration the report of the Committee of Conference ...
Stran 432
... elected unanimously . Resolved , That the sum of 150,000 dollars be sent to Mr. E. Hancock , deputy pay master general , for the use of the continental troops in the eastern department . The committee , to whom Colonel Hand's letter ...
... elected unanimously . Resolved , That the sum of 150,000 dollars be sent to Mr. E. Hancock , deputy pay master general , for the use of the continental troops in the eastern department . The committee , to whom Colonel Hand's letter ...
Stran 438
... elected secretary of said board . The Committee on Qualifications having recommended Doctor Benjamin Allison as surgeon to the first Pensyl- vania batallion now in Canada ; George Tudor to be captain of the company lately commanded by ...
... elected secretary of said board . The Committee on Qualifications having recommended Doctor Benjamin Allison as surgeon to the first Pensyl- vania batallion now in Canada ; George Tudor to be captain of the company lately commanded by ...
Stran 460
... elected . A memorial from Dr. [ John ] Morgan , director general and chief physician of the Hospital , was laid before Con- gress , and read : " ' This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress , No. 78 , XXII , folio 49 ...
... elected . A memorial from Dr. [ John ] Morgan , director general and chief physician of the Hospital , was laid before Con- gress , and read : " ' This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress , No. 78 , XXII , folio 49 ...
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Stran 680 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Stran 549 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state...
Stran 681 - No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted...
Stran 514 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Stran 680 - United states in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Stran 682 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the Legislature of each State shall direct...
Stran 556 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Stran 493 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Stran 497 - He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
Stran 678 - No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United States in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue.